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gr-qc2019★ 2 cited

The quantum black hole as a gravitational hydrogen atom

Christian Corda, Fabiano Feleppa

Nathan Rosen's quantization approach to the gravitational collapse is applied in the simple case of a pressureless "star of dust" by finding the gravitational potential, the Schrod…

gr-qc2019★ 7 cited

Field-theoretic approach to large-scale structure formation

Pavel Friedrich, Tomislav Prokopec

We develop a field-theoretic description of large-scale structure formation by taking the non-relativistic limit of a canonically transformed, real scalar field which is minimally…

gr-qc2019★ 11 cited

Breaking of scaling symmetry by massless scalar on de Sitter

D. Glavan, S. P. Miao, T. Prokopec +1

We study the response of a classical massless minimally coupled scalar to a static point scalar charge on de Sitter. By considering explicit solutions of the problem we conclude th…

gr-qc2019★ 12 cited

Graviton Propagator in a 2-Parameter Family of de Sitter Breaking Gauges

D. Glavan, S. P. Miao, T. Prokopec +1

We formulate the graviton propagator on de Sitter background in a 2-parameter family of simple gauges which break de Sitter invariance. Explicit results are derived for the first o…

gr-qc2019★ 56 cited

Searching for ultralight bosons within spin measurements of a population of binary black hole mergers

Ken K. Y. Ng, Otto A. Hannuksela, Salvatore Vitale +1

Ultralight bosons can form clouds around rotating black holes if their Compton wavelength is comparable to the black hole size. The boson cloud spins down the black hole through a…

gr-qc2019★ 72 cited

Modeling the postmerger gravitational wave signal and extracting binary properties from future binary neutron star detections

Ka Wa Tsang, Tim Dietrich, Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational wave astronomy has established its role in measuring the equation of state governing cold supranuclear matter. To date and in the near future, gravitational wave meas…

gr-qc2019★ 66 cited

A morphology-independent search for gravitational wave echoes in data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

Ka Wa Tsang, Archisman Ghosh, Anuradha Samajdar +4

Gravitational wave echoes have been proposed as a smoking-gun signature of exotic compact objects with near-horizon structure. Recently there have been observational claims that ec…